込こむ

godan verb (-mu), intransitive verb

be crowded; be packed; be congested

Used of trains, roads, shops, schedules, and similar things becoming crowded or congested. This sense is usually written 混む rather than 込む.

See also: 混む

• 朝あさの電でん車しゃはいつも混こむ。

  The morning trains are always crowded.

• 連れん休きゅう中ちゅうは高こう速そく道どう路ろが混こんでいた。

  The expressways were congested during the long holiday.

godan verb (-mu), intransitive verb

be intricate; be elaborate; be complex

Most familiar in expressions such as 手が込む and 手の込んだ, meaning that something is carefully made, elaborate, or intricate.

See also: 手の込んだ

• この刺し繍しゅうは手てが込こんでいる。

  This embroidery is intricate.

• 手ての込こんだ料りょう理りを用よう意いしてくれた。

  They prepared an elaborate meal for us.

suffix

go into; put into; enter into

Attached to the masu-stem of another verb to form a compound verb. It often adds the idea of movement into a place or putting information or an object into something.

• 子こどもがプールに飛とび込こんだ。

  The child jumped into the pool.

• フォームに住じゅう所しょを書かき込こむ。

  Enter your address in the form.

suffix

become completely; become deeply; shift into a state

As a compound-verb suffix after a masu-stem, it can show that a condition develops strongly or thoroughly, as in 冷え込む.

• 朝あさから急きゅうに冷ひえ込こんできた。

  It suddenly started getting very cold this morning.

suffix

do thoroughly; do sufficiently; do intensively

Attached to a verb stem to show that the action is done deeply, carefully, or enough to master or absorb something, as in 読み込む.

• 本ほん番ばん前まえに台だい本ほんを何なん度ども読よみ込こんだ。

  Before the performance, I read the script thoroughly many times.

suffix

remain in a state; stay doing something; settle into a state

Attached to a verb stem to show entering and then remaining in a state or posture, especially in compounds such as 黙り込む and 座り込む.

• 彼かれは質しつ問もんされると黙だまり込こんだ。

  When questioned, he fell silent and stayed that way.

• 抗こう議ぎ者しゃたちは駅えき前まえに座すわり込こんだ。

  The protesters sat down and remained in front of the station.